Glossary

This glossary defines terms used in this guide or related to this product and is not a comprehensive glossary of computer terms.

administrative job

A process, executed by the Management Interface, which performs formatting and initialization

(admin job)

of the FSE media.

administrator

A system administrator who installs, configures, monitors, and maintains an FSE

(FSE administrator)

implementation.

agent

An FSE process that executes tasks on request by FSE jobs and some FSE commands. The FSE

(FSE agent)

agents are the Back End Agent and the Library Agent.

Back End Agent

An FSE agent which executes migration, recall, maintenance and recovery jobs; it also formats

(BEA)

and initializes FSE media. All read and write operations on the FSE media are handled by the

 

Back End Agent. The Back End Agent process name is fse-bea.

backup

A process that creates backup image with complete and consistent state of the FSE server at a

(FSE backup)

particular point in time. The backup image can be used to recover the server in case of

 

disaster. Backup image file can be located on a local or remote disk, or stored on tape media

 

of the backup FSE media pool.

backup job

A specific FSE job type that executes the backup process. Backup jobs can be started by FSE

 

administrator with the fsebackup command. See also ”backup (FSE backup)”.

backup log

A file that stores information about activity of the FSE backup process. FSE backup log is named

(FSE backup log)

backup.log and located in the directory /var/opt/fse/log (on Linux platform) or in the

 

directory %InstallPath%\var\log (on Windows platform).

backup media pool

A special type of FSE media pool, used exclusively for backup and restore of the FSE

(backup FSE media

implementation. In contrast to regular FSE media pools, the media cartridges in the backup FSE

pool)

media pool do not contribute to the secondary storage space available to FSE users. See also

 

”media pool (FSE media pool)”.

capacity disk

A disk with large storage space which stores file systems either dedicated to the FSE disk media

 

or assigned to the FSE disk buffer. If used for the FSE disk media, it can be either locally

 

mounted on the consolidated FSE system or FSE server, or used on a remote system which is

 

accessible via CIFS or NFS protocol. If used for the FSE disk buffer, it can only be locally

 

mounted on the consolidated FSE system or FSE server. Note that configurations with several

 

FSE disk buffer file systems residing on the same capacity disk may reduce the performance of

 

the FSE disk buffer.

check log

A file that records all the inconsistencies found by the maintenance job, which performs a File

(FSE check log)

System Catalog consistency check for a specified FSE partition. FSE check logs are named

 

check_hsmfs_fsc_PartitionName (in case of the FSC vs. HSM file system consistency

 

check) or check_media_fsc_PartitionName (in case of the FSC vs. FSE media

 

consistency check). They are located in the directory /var/opt/fse/log (on Linux platform)

 

or in the directory %InstallPath%\var\log (on Windows platform).

CIFS

The file sharing protocol used on Windows platform. This is one of the protocols used for

 

accessing files on an HSM file system from a remote machine, particularly a Windows client. A

 

smb server (Samba) must be running on the machine hosting the HSM file system, in order to

 

allow file transfers. See also ”Samba”.

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File System Extender (FSE) specifications

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